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What type of rock is salt?

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Rock salt is not a rock...its just a salt that can be extracted from salty water especially from sea water.

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Salt that evaporates forms a mineral called halite and halite forms rock salt. Rock salt is a form of sedimentary rock and table salt is made from rock salt. Most salts at the least, the majority of salt is sedimentary and rock salt is sedimentary rock.

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Rock salt is one of the major types of sedimentary rocks.

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